EPIGRAMS BY CAROLAN.
George Borrow translation
On Friars.
Would’st thou on good terms with friars live, Ever be humble and admiring; All they ask of thee freely give, And in return be nought requiring.
On a Surly Butler, who had refused him admission to the cellar.
O Dermod Flynn, it grieveth me Thou keepest not Hell’s portal; As long as thou should’st porter be, Thou would’st admit no mortal.